Comments on: Pop vs Soda vs… Coke?

By: James

James — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:47:13 +0000

Pop, soda, coke WHATS THE DIFFERENCE! Oh, there’s more fizz in soda than pop and coke, I measured it and everything, it’s true! That’s why soda is so much more better than pop. But pop has that distinct flavor thats not in coke or soda. BIG DEAL.

By: elise

elise — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:04:09 +0000

We say soft drink in New Orleans, and I really cannot stand the other things some people call it. Pop just sounds stupid, but the people from out of state who say soda or coke used to drive me up the wall when I worked as a bartender. Soda is soda water. Coke is coke. Don’t ask for it in your drink if that’s not what you want.

By: Mike Hawk

Mike Hawk — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:36:00 +0000

wow, how lame you loser. cause i love soda.

By: Mike Hawk

Mike Hawk — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:35:17 +0000

i live in california. everybody here calls it slurp slurp.
- jorgan.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:38:10 +0000

I’m from West Virginia and everyone calls it pop here. If you call a soft drink soda here everyone will know you’re not really from WV. I will never call it soda I cringe when I here someone call it soda.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:23:03 +0000

“Pop” does not sound cooler; it sounds juvenile and lame. I hear someone order a “pop” and I just assume it’s some Jughead looking fool visiting the future from 1920.

By: Fitzy

Fitzy — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:15:07 +0000

Why does everyone keep saying that POP is the sound a carbonated drink makes when you open it? It doesn’t sound like that at all. That’s just silly. Anyway, I’m from southwestern PA and I say pop just like the map says. I’m also in the military and I haven’t changed to saying soda like the majority.

By: Meade

Meade — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:04:09 +0000

I grew up in Northern Virginia and the term was always “soft drink”. Rarely did we ever say “soda”, but according to the map that has now changed. Only in Central and Southern Virginia do they use the term “coke” to refer to any soft drink at all. I think soda sounds silly. Soda is something you bake with !

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:23:02 +0000

It is hilarious to me that southern states call it coke, regardless of the variety.

By: melanie

melanie — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:38:23 +0000

im from new jersey and if you say pop you get a wtf look. in michigan where i vist often they call it pop and when i ask for a soda they say you mean a pop. but no matter what there is no real name for soda, pop, soda pop, pop soda, soft drink, fizzy drink, its always going to be different no matter where you go. even places like big boys, famus daves, you may see them in one state but your not seeing it another stae.